With a year gone since our Oxford adventure began and with time flying by, it seems that there a still million things to do here. So we decided to make our list and start a blog to record our attempts to complete our ‘listful things’.
- Start a blog
- Iceskate at Somerset House this winter (http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/ice_rink/)
- Finish knitting Dan's scarf for said bitter cold winter
- Visit York and Chichester
- Find storage solutions for a storage-poor flat
- Do more aimless walking
- Run the Bath Half Marathon
- Be a better aunt and uncle
- Master Holly's scone recipe
- Drink more disgustingly warm ales
- Put more things in vases
- Have a wedding!
- Learn dance steps for said wedding to make 3.5 minute bridal waltz a bit less "swayey"
- Befriend our new neighbours
- Skype our overseas mates once a week (including our beautiful old neighbours)
- Volunteer in Oxford
- Reinitiate weekly date night
- Learn to sew
- Improve our Croatian (govorje Hrvatski bolje?)
- Visit Drayton Manor (www.draytonmanor.co.uk/)
- Cook a new recipe together once a week
- Make better use of our beautiful orchard
- Eat more from the bottom of the food pyramid
- Baby sit John and Sarah's beautiful Baby B
- Go brambling
- See some shows
- Learn Devil's Patience
- Do a mini triathalon
- Make jack-o-lanterns
- Play like kids in the snow
- Experiment with tea
- Write more
- Ride bike with no hands (or for Dan, ride bike)
- Learn Russian
- Recycle
- Go to Paris
- Learn to straighten hair with limited assistance
- Read a Penguin Classic together
- Garden (a little)
- Improve the ambience of an unambient bedroom
- Be the couple that suggests the late night trips to Oxford's finest clubs
- Visit the forest
- Attempt to tame a squirrel
- Cover our wine stained IKEA couch
- Enjoy port nightcaps (preferably without spilling them on newly covered IKEA couch)
- Attend more irrelevant lectures and talks